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lpnlady,
I have one over you – I have 47 years of dieting under my belt. Yes it’s exhausting. No it’s not lasting. How can you count calories, carbs, fat grams, Weight Watchers points, whatever all your life and make it a lifestyle??? YOU CAN’T. So the weight comes back.
God bless you too. We can do this.
Hi ipnlady
I envy you finding out about fast dieting when you are still a young woman. This means you can lose your weight and improve your health for the many years to come; making those years to come more enjoyable because you should be more healthy because you’ve been fast dieting for so many years.
Only one word of advice and caution; don’t equate ‘normal’ with ‘as much as you like’ of the foods that cause us to gain weight in the first place. Some people call them ‘feast days’ – I would strongly suggest you think of them right from the beginning as; non-fast days.
Good Luck
Welcome to this new way of life. I would like to echo PreciousBooBoo’s comment.
You will have to continue to watch your calories! On non fast days you have to stay under your TDEE and above your BMR and as you know on your fast days under 500/600 cal.
Now at the beginning you might be thrilled to see how quickly you can lose weight, but the closer you get to your goal the harder it will get and the closer you will have to watch your calorie intake.
At the end of the day the 5:2 diet’s goal is to create a calorie deficit per week and this will work only if you stay under your TDEE on your feed days. So in fact you can eat what you want but not how much you want!
Best of luck,
Stef.
Well, I disagree that you have to count calories on your “eat” days. For me, that defeats the whole purpose of this way of eating. But I do agree that it’s not a free-for-all eat fest and we must be mindful when we do eat.
Instead of counting calories on my 5 days, I’m changing my old normal way of eating into a new normal. I’m slowing down my eating considerably and waiting 20 minutes for satiety signals to kick in, before I go back for seconds. Studies show that when you eat slowly, you eat less, and I’ve been known to shovel in my food!
I could never stick to this counting every day, but that’s just me.
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